Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
GEORGE S. PATTONMoral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
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